Aug 18, 2026 from It's FOSS The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.6, matching ChatGPT 5.6 Sol in several AI benchmarks SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.6, the newest version of its widely used artificial intelligence model. This update is now accessible across platforms such as Cursor, Grok Build, OpenRouter, Vercel, C...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Store Tunes on Paper and Stream Them Over LoRA Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Stripe will reportedly acquire AI model router OpenRouter in deal exceeding $7 billion Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, according to a report from Bloomberg, with sources indicating a deal price above $7 billion. This development follows a recent re...
Aug 18, 2026 from It's FOSS I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Using Acoustic Resonators as Thrusters for Small Robots There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al. with a …read...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Edison Motors Offering All-Mechanical Trucks, At Least to Start We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard– their BDE-sieries truck will be offered first without the …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Helsingør: The first walls of postgres physical replication Scenario This is not completed just yet. You’re setting up a PostgreSQL database with replication, you decided to use Docker along with Docker Compose to make it easier to manage and test, after a ...
Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday One Man’s Perfect Retro-Style Monitor Takes All Inputs Perfection is an inherently subjective measure, in that one must choose the criteria against which to measure. A perfect circle is an absolutely rubbish octagon, for example. So when you …read more
Aug 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Sensationalist Economics Reporting in Morning Brew Writing for Morning Brew, Matty Merritt covered “luxury butter.” According to the author: “With grocery item costs up everywhere, even $10 butter feels like a reasonable little treat.” I live in an...
Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday OLEDs Have Gained Brightness, Not Burn-In Resistance OLED displays solve many of the problems suffered by LC displays, including color fidelity, dynamic range and power usage. That said, especially in the early days OLED gained a reputation …read more
Aug 17, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Geistersuppe Tea untersucht systematisch, wie eine Suppe funktioniert, die Menschen ins Geisterreich schickt.
Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday Using Starlink’s Satellites to Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in LEO has a very pleasant side effect for atmospheric researchers. Starlink publi...
Aug 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 August 2026 Backsplash Edition Top Story Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust and also that water is wet. (Tech Crunch) Well... Yes. Anthropic is planning to water...
Aug 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Cheap USB-C chargers are actually fine—these 4 specs are all that matter “These days, buying a charger requires you to be familiar with USB PD, PPS, GaN, and a handful of other acronyms, on top of having to check wattage, making it surprisingly difficult to figure out w...
Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday Linux Fu: Improving FTP FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP, rsync, or something even fancier. But FTP refuses to die, …read more
Aug 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Ubuntu is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux The company's VP of Engineering expects WSL users to outnumber native Ubuntu desktop users within months.
Aug 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net addy.io rules system adds new automation conditions and actions addy.io has expanded its mail rules system with more conditions and actions for automating how incoming messages and aliases are managed. Users can now automatically label catch-all aliases, route ...
Aug 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-17-26 Pook-Emu Bee was off Saturday for the newsletter and off Sunday because I had work to finish, but we return on this fun Monday for our regularly scheduled links from around the web. Links & Comment...
Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday Toy Computer Restored In the 1960s, the home computer was barely a twinkle in anyone’s eye. This was the decade in which computers were used by a handful of companies and organizations and …read more
